This is exactly the point I was trying to make a few days
ago, asking why stuff of no apparent relevance to feminism
is sent out to us all. I know it's an important issue and I
don't disagree that something should be done, people need
to know abut it, people are evil, whatever, but why send it
out to a feminist email group?
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:22:45 -0600 "Farris, Sara"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps, but I doubt it. That sounds to me like the shift from women's
> studies to gender studies so we can study masculine gender, too. Feminism
> has always studied men to some degree, but it has always been about women,
> and that's plenty for me. I don't need my feminism to be humanism in order
> to feel that it's important. (This is not as cranky as it sounds. I'm just
> in a rush this morning.)
>
> Sara
>
> ----------
> From: Spencer Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 4:23 PM
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
> Subject: Re: leaky plastics
>
> Perhaps it would help to think of "feminism" as "humanism", as what
> affects
> women affects men too, though perhaps in different ways. But we ALL
> are
> exposed daily to myriads of toxins in our environments, no matter
> how
> careful we try to be. We are ALL being victimized by big industry
> whose
> goal isn't to help keep us well and alive, but only to make lots of
> money.
> It truly is a matter of circumstance, genetics, luck and goodness
> knows what
> else, as to who develops cancer or whatever dread condition (there
> are
> worse!), and who doesn't. One doesn't have to be thinking
> fatalistically to
> have that happen to one; it just "IS" - a fact of the times within
> which we
> live. Most people don't want to even think about this, and so it is
> labeled, as here in the case of "fatalistic" - so what CAN be useful
> is for
> us to strive to get the government to change its policies, make new
> laws
> about toxic substances (I know, good luck - very slow, if ever, in
> coming),
> AND big industry: DON'T PUTCHASE PRODUCTS FROM COMPANIES WHO
> MANUFACTURE OR
> ENCOURAGE USE OF THESE TOXIC PLASTICS!! Does anyone have a list of
> these
> companies (goodness, it could be all of them!)?? Thanks for
> listening,
> Limaloa
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Farris, Sara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 4:34 AM
> Subject: RE: leaky plastics
>
>
> >Now how is that useful? Surely ecofeminism is about more than such
> blanket
> >fatalism tied, incongruously, with such dippy faith in
> individualism. I
> >suppose my aunt, age 43, let toxins give her breast cancer and then
> let the
> >cancer kill her?
> >
> >Sara
> >
> > ----------
> > From: vikki charles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:19 AM
> > To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
> > Subject: Re: leaky plastics
> >
> > Does it matter? Everything will kill you eventually if you
> > let it. It's a question of not letting it...
> > On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 22:19:12 -0600 Gwendolyn L Griffin
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > i have heard much about the fact the plastics leach toxics into
> >whatever
> > > food substance they are holding (incl. plastic soda bottles,
> >plastic
> > > baggies, tupperware . . . .)
> > > that they indeed leach hormonal disrupters which are causing
> girls
> >to
> > > reach puberty prematurely, for one . . .other effects i cannot
> >remember
> > > . . .
> > > does anyone have information on this?
> > > thanks!
> > > gwendolyn griffin
> > >
> >
> > ----------------------
> > vikki charles
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
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